“GOD MAY HUMBLE ME BEFORE YOU:”

Saterdag 7 Desember 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(2 Korinthiërs 12:15-21)

“GOD SOU MY DALK IN VERLEENTHEID BRING:”

  1. “Ek sou graag alles wil gee vir julle lewe, ja ook myself. As ek julle soveel meer liefhet as wat die ander julle het, het julle my dan minder lief as vir hulle?
  2. “Goed, ek was dus nie vir julle ‘n oorlas nie. Maar julle kan dink ek is slim, en ek het julle uitoorlê. 
  3. “Het ek myself dan miskien ten koste van julle geldelik bevoordeel, deur een van die mense wat ek na julle gestuur het?
  4. “Ek het vir Titus gevra om na julle toe te gaan, en die ander broer saamgestuur. Het Titus homself dan geldelik bevoordeel ten koste van julle? Handel ek en hy nie in dieselfde gees nie? En loop ons nie in dieselfde spore nie?
  5. “Julle dink seker lankal dat ons, onsself by julle probeer verdedig? Nee, ons praat in verantwoordelikheid tot God, en in verbondenheid met Christus. Alles wat ons doen, geliefdes, is in belang van julle geestelike opbou. 
  6. “Ek is bang dat wanneer ek kom, ek julle miskien nie sal vind soos julle dit graag wil hě nie. Ek is bang vir twis, naywer, onbeheersdheid, selfsug, kwaadpratery, nuusdraery, verwaandheid en wanordelikheid. 
  7. “Ek is ook bang dat wanneer ek weer kom, my God my by julle in verleentheid sal bring, en dat ek sal moet treur oor baie van julle wat geruime tyd al ‘n sondige lewe lei, en wat oor hulle onreinheid, ontug en losbandigheid, nie tot berouvolle inkeer gekom het nie.”

PEARL FOR EACH DAY: 

Saturday 7 December 2024. 

(2 Corinthians 12:15-21) 

“GOD MAY HUMBLE ME BEFORE YOU:”

  1. “I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less? 
  2. “But granting that I myself did not burden you, I was crafty, you say, and got the better of you by deceit. 
  3. “Did I take advantage of you through any of those whom I sent to you? 
  4. “I urged Titus to go, and sent the brother with him. Did Titus take advantage of you? Did we not act in the same spirit? Did we not take the same steps?
  5. “Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? It is in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ, and all for your upbuilding, beloved. 
  6. “For I fear that perhaps when I come, I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish – that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder. 
  7. “I fear that when I come again, my God may humble me before you, and I might have to mourn over many of those who sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and sensuality that they practiced.”

HE ANSWERED: “MY GRACE IS SUFFICIENT FOR YOU:”

Vrydag 6 Desember 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(2 Korinthiërs 12:7-14) 

‘SY ANTWOORD WAS: MY GENADE IS VIR JOU GENOEG:’

  1. “Selfs nie vanweë die verhewenheid van die openbaring nie. Daarom, dat ek nie hoogmoedig sou wees nie, is daar vir my ‘n doring in die vlees gegee, ‘n boodskapper van die duiwel, om my met vuiste te slaan
  2. “Drie maal het ek die Here gebid dat dit van my af weggeneem moet word. 
  3. “Sy antwoord was: ‘+My Genade is vir jou genoeg. My krag kom juis tot volle werking wanneer jy swak is.’+ Daarom sal ek baie liewer oor my swakhede roem, sodat die krag van Christus my beskutting kan wees. 
  4. “Daarom is ek bly oor swakhede, beledigings, ontberings, vervolginge en moeilikhede ter wille van Christus, want as ek swak is, dan is ek sterk. 
  5. “Ek het nou soos ‘n dwaas opgetree. Julle het my daartoe verplig. Eintlik is dit julle wat in my guns moes gepraat het, want al is ek niks, staan ek niks agter by daardie danige apostels nie. 
  6. “Die dinge wat ‘n apostel kenmerk, het ek met groot geduld by julle verrig: tekens en wonders en kragtige dade. 
  7. “Waarin is julle swakker behandel as die ander gemeentes, behalwe dat ek persoonlik nie vir julle tot ‘n geldelike las was nie? Vergewe my hierdie onreg!
  8. “Dit is nou die derde keer dat ek gereed is om na julle toe te kom, en ek sal nie vir julle ‘n las wees nie; ek soek nie julle geld nie, maar vir julle. Dit is immers nie die kinders wat vir die ouers sorg nie, maar die ouers vir die kinders.”

PEARL FOR EACH DAY: 

Friday 6 December 2024. 

(2 Corinthians 12:7-14)

‘HE SAID TO ME: MY GRACE IS SUFFICIENT FOR YOU:’

  1. “So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of the devil to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. 
  2. “Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. 
  3. “But He said to me: ‘+My Grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’+ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the Power of Christ may rest upon me. 
  4. “For the sake of Christ then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamaties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. 
  5. “I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these super apostles, even though I am nothing. 
  6. “The sign of a true apostle were performed among you, with utmost patience, with signs and wonders and mighty works. 
  7. “For in what were you less favoured than the rest of the Churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong!
  8. “Here for the third time, I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for I seek not what is yours, but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.”

THE GOD AND FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST IS BLESSED FOREVER:

Donderdag 5 Desember 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(2 Korinthiërs 11:29-33) 

LOF AAN DIE GOD EN VADER VAN ONS HERE JESUS CHRISTUS: 

  1. “As iemand swak is, voel dit asof ek self ook swak is, as iemand in sonde val, voel dit asof ek ook deur vuur gaan. 
  2. “As daar dan beroem moet word, sal ek roem, maar dan oor my swakhede. 
  3. “Die God en Vader van ons Here Jesus weet dat ek nie lieg nie. Aan Hom kom toe die lof tot in ewigheid!
  4. “Toe ek in Damaskus was, het die verteenwoordiger van koning Aretas die stad laat bewaak om my te vang. 
  5. “Maar deur ‘n venster in die muur is ek in ‘n mandjie laat afsak en het ek aan sy hande ontkom. 

(2 Korinthiërs 12:1-7a)

  1. “Om te roem het wel geen sin nie, maar terwyl dit dan nou moet, kom ek by gesigte en openbarings wat die Here my gegee het. 
  2. “Ek ken ‘n man wat aan Christus behoort. Veertien jaar gelede is hy weggeruk tot in die derde hemel. Of dit met die liggaam was of sonder die liggaam, weet ek nie, net God weet dit. 
  3. “Ek weet ook dat hierdie man weggeruk is na die paradys toe. Of dit met die liggaam was of sonder die liggaam, weet ek nie, net God weet dit. 
  4. “Daar het hy woorde gehoor wat ‘n mens nie kan of mag uitspreek nie. 
  5. “Oor hierdie man sal ek roem, maar nie oor myself nie, behalwe oor my swakhede. 
  6. “Al sou ek wou roem, sal ek tog nie dwaas wees nie, omdat ek die waarheid sal praat. Maar ek weerhou my daarvan omdat ek nie wil hê dat iemand my meer moet toeskryf as wat hy my sien doen of my hoor sê nie. 
  7. “Selfs nie vanweë die verhewenheid van die openbarings nie.”

PEARL FOR EACH DAY: 

Thursday 5 December 2024. 

(2 Corinthians 11:29-33)

THE GOD AND FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST IS BLESSED FOREVER: 

  1. “Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant? 
  2. “If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness. 
  3. “The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, He is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying. 
  4. “At Damascus, the governor under king Aretas was guarding the city of Damascus in order to seize me, 
  5. “but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and escaped his hands. 

(2 Corinthians 12:1-6)

  1. “I must go on boasting. Though there is nothing to be gained by it, I will go to visions and revelations of the Lord. 
  2. “I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up in the third heaven – whether in the body or out of the body, I do not know, God knows. 
  3. “And I know that this man was caught up into paradise – whether in the body or out of the body, I do not know, God knows, 
  4. “and he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter. 
  5. “On behalf of this man I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except of my weaknesses, 
  6. “though if I should wish to boast, I would not be a fool, for I would be speaking the truth; but I refrain from it, so that no one would think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me.
  7. “So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations.”